St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-01
ABOUT MEN AND THINGS.
Things Seen and Heard Around the
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City One Busy Day.
"Talk about luck, l had a streak once
that knocks the spots Off of anything of
that kind | ever heard OFF,
The speaker sat Oh one of the seats in
the Union depot yesterday with his
long, gaunt legs crossed and the big foot
at the extremity of his right leg moving
up and down with an easy and not I'M
grateful motion. He looked pale and
his cheeks were thin, but there was
bitof fire in his grey eyes that indicated
a hidden vitality. He was an old time
gambler and his shifting luck had led
him merry chase over the South and
West and now he was drifting in from
the mining camps of Western Montana
with few dollars in his pocket and an
ambition to tackle game within the
lines of civilization. 1t was while in
friendly conversation with GLOBE re-
porter that the old gambler made the
above remark.
$50 ahead and tell us about it's said
the reporter, handing a cigar over to
the man of hazards.
The gambler accepted the proffered
weed, and, pinching the end off with
his long finger nails, lit it, and settling
back i'll the seat, pulled his hat down
over the bridge of his nose and said:
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southern part of Indiana. I'd pretty
hard luck all the summer, and that fall
L found myself without a dollar in my
pocket, with long winter staring me
in the face and long stretch of walk
ing between me and warm climate,
but | concluded to pass away the time
in walking towards the warm part of
the country, where l could sleep out of
doors. One day l strolled into Prince
ton, small town in the southern ex-
tremity of the state, and L found a
pretty heavy game of stud poker run
ming in room over saloon. Stud was
my favOrlte graft, and |
naturally went up to the room to watch
the play and wish / was in with it.
When got up there | found that the
Hoosiers were using kernels of corn for
chips and it didn't take me long to re-
member that about half a mile outside
Of the town | had passed a corn crib full
OF fresh grain. | went down stairs and
out towards the corn crib at double
quick. 1t didn't take me long to get
there, and in the dark | managed to
work an ear out through crack in the
| side of the crib. l showed the ear into
my pocket and Shelled off the kernels
as | went back to town, congratulating
myself that at last fortune was about to
smile on me. l reached the saloon and
went upstairs. | took a seat by the
table and the dealer threw me an ace in
| the hole and tossed me another as sight
card, it was high and | had pair of
| them. l wanted to get up and kick a
| hole in the side of the house, for | felt
in my bones that my luck was coming
back to me. With confident smile
tossed out a handful of corn and
began tipping up my hole card
as gamblers do to sort of bluff the other
players, when the dealer attracted my
stranger, but we amt playin' red chips
tonight
| looked down at the handful of corn
l had thrown out, and I'm horse if il
wasn't red. l got up and sneaked down
stairs. l went out and slept under the
corn crib all night, and the next morn
| ing walked around it and couldn't find
another red en- in the whole business
If that amt hard luck then Pm off the
track darned long ways"
A CUTE NEwSBOY.
A crowd of neWSbOyS stood around q
grating in the sidewalk on Third street
yesterday morning, and they were evil
| IDENTIFY excited over something. An in.
vestigation showed a brand new dime
lying on the ground under the grating.
1t had been dropped by some passer-by,
and its shine had attracted the eye OF a
| bootblack, who always has his ewes
on the lookout for shines, and
| the question was how to lift
| the dime from its resting
place. Several schemes were concocted
but they were not feasible, and at last
one boy suggested that they ask the
| proprietor of the store to let them &C
through his cellar into the area and get
the silver piece, but there wasn't one OF
them who had the nerve to tackle the
merchant, and they continued to gaze
wistfully at the money and debate. A
| sharp-looking newSboy suddenly darted
away from the crowd and around the
corner. In few minutes he returned
with lath, the end of which he had